Bowen says that agreement on new standards means that EV owners will be able to use vehicle to grid technology - effectively using their cars as batteries on wheels - by the end of the year.
This is purely a way to sell more electric cars.
It is also completely pointless.
Solar comes in during the day: cars are not parked/connected when the solar is coming in.
People would be better off buying an off-the-shelf home battery or having a professional Solar Installer build a battery array. Even a top-shelf $10,000 Tesla PowerWall is cheaper than the cheapest EV.
There is a pretty high percentage of cars parked at home during the day. I recall seeing something along the lines of 40-60%. Edit: ABS 2021 says 53% only drove. That number decreased from 62% in 2016.
I thought the idea was if you bought an EV, you used your EV as the battery storage so you didn’t need to have both EV and separate battery storage.
ie, it assumes you have/will have an EV to do car stuff, not that you buy the EV specifically for battery storage.
I was parked outside work, waiting to come inside :).
I will admit that there isn’t much reason for me to have a car, except for the fact that I take my vehicle off-road on weekends, it would be pretty pointless me having a car to myself.
I can carpool with colleagues or family to work and I can purchase groceries locally. I can also catch public transport.
I pay a large chunk of my income for the privilege of owning a car; registration, servicing, fuel and repayments add up quickly; the money would be much better spent on other things.
For the cost of my car, I could buy 4 PowerWalls and some solar panels; another for our house (which would reduce our grid-reliance to zero), a couple for my Sisters house (which would do the same for them) and one for my mother’s house.
My car is not a luxury car but is a luxury expense.
This is purely a way to sell more electric cars. It is also completely pointless.
Solar comes in during the day: cars are not parked/connected when the solar is coming in.
People would be better off buying an off-the-shelf home battery or having a professional Solar Installer build a battery array. Even a top-shelf $10,000 Tesla PowerWall is cheaper than the cheapest EV.
There is a pretty high percentage of cars parked at home during the day. I recall seeing something along the lines of 40-60%. Edit: ABS 2021 says 53% only drove. That number decreased from 62% in 2016.
I thought the idea was if you bought an EV, you used your EV as the battery storage so you didn’t need to have both EV and separate battery storage.
ie, it assumes you have/will have an EV to do car stuff, not that you buy the EV specifically for battery storage.
If a car is not being driven, there is no point having a car.
I hope you’re not posting while driving your car!
Lol it’s only not used to drive while at work. What about having a car to drive for when you’re not working?
I was parked outside work, waiting to come inside :).
I will admit that there isn’t much reason for me to have a car, except for the fact that I take my vehicle off-road on weekends, it would be pretty pointless me having a car to myself.
I can carpool with colleagues or family to work and I can purchase groceries locally. I can also catch public transport.
I pay a large chunk of my income for the privilege of owning a car; registration, servicing, fuel and repayments add up quickly; the money would be much better spent on other things.
For the cost of my car, I could buy 4 PowerWalls and some solar panels; another for our house (which would reduce our grid-reliance to zero), a couple for my Sisters house (which would do the same for them) and one for my mother’s house.
My car is not a luxury car but is a luxury expense.